![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For Bradbury, books were repositories of knowledge and ideas. But the more I thought about it, the more relevant the novel seemed. ![]() If he felt this way, what would teenagers think? Bradbury’s novel is a classic taught in high schools across America. I can read anything on my tablet, from the ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’ to Jo Nesbo, and I can read them in bed, on a plane or next to the ocean, because it’s all in the cloud, safe from your firemen’s torches.” I asked an 82-year-old friend for advice. When I set out to adapt the novel early in 2016, I was faced with a big question: Do people still care about physical books? The protagonist, a fireman named Guy Montag, begins to doubt his actions and turns against his mentor, Captain Beatty. In my parents’ household, Hafez’s book of Persian poetry, “The Divan,” was revered like a religious text.īut now I was making a film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s seminal novel, “Fahrenheit 451,” which presents a future America where books are outlawed and firemen burn them. Even setting a teacup on a book was considered a sin. I was taught at a very young age to read and respect books. We designed powerful, kerosene-spitting flamethrowers and torched books - en masse. There will be no such disclaimer at the end of my new film, because we burned a lot of books. No books were harmed in the making of this motion picture. ![]()
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